I sorta hate that we use the word “normal” to reassure people about their desires and kinks and sexual behavior because it implies that a behavior’s pathology is determined by its frequency within society

Like, you might be the only person with your one particular kink, making it decidedly *not* normal, but that doesn’t mean you should be ashamed or feel insecure or bad about it.

Your sexuality doesn’t have to look like anyone else’s, it just has to prioritize consent from all parties involved.

It is possible for anyone, of any gender, to benefit from male privilege at some point in time provided that some aspect of their being gets attributed added value because someone perceived it as being masculine or male.

For example: if a cisgender woman named Robin Smith applies for a job and gets hired based on her resume in part because the person reading her resume she was a man, and their biases ticked up Robin's level of qualification as a result, *she is benefiting from male privilege.*

Likewise a butch cis woman who gets read as male while walking home at night might benefit from the male privilege of not getting harassed while walking down the street.

Will Dems making gains in many state governments, now is a good time to remind you that *state governments can do a lot*. States can take action on climate change, abortion access, healthcare, and many more important issues, and the actions state governments take matters *a lot*.

The reason abortion is near inaccessible in much of the country, even with Roe v Wade still legal, is *GOP state governments*. Push your state to strengthen abortion access in case Roe v Wade gets overturned.

Obamacare was inspired by, ahem, Romneycare, Massachusetts’s statewide healthcare plan. Show America what single-payer can look like by pushing your state to adopt it.

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Time for something a little different, and an idea I’ve been toying with—a look at how #transphobes try to frame their narrative within a claim that they are only “concerned” about trans people existing.

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community who isn’t a #transphobic arserag can now spot whenever the usual #hate groups and individuals deploy their dog-whistles to denigrate trans people, especially trans women, but it is all too easy to forget that for the average cis person with no experience of...
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Women are making a mistake if they think their daughters are at no risk if the ideas of "due process" and "presumption of innocence" are jettisoned. It won't just be men. Objects of mass persecutory hysteria tend to shift. These legal principles protect us all.

Women, in fact, have historically been more vulnerable to witch-hunts, which is why we use the word "witch-hunt." When people go nuts, they're as apt to do it in a misogynist way as a misandrist way. Women don't have to like or love men, or be related to them, to grasp the idea:

We've embedded these principles in our legal system because we know very well that human beings are prone to witch-hunts, lynching, mob violence, and wild irrationality. If you sincerely believe you could never be on the receiving end of that because you're a woman,

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"Many years ago, the then president of The National Council of Churches warned that the danger of the great religious awakening taking place in our country, might become fanatical and be carried into our political and business life!

"Perhaps this was a fair assessment, that is, if you conflate #Christian#Zionism with religious awakening. Unfortunately, these "fanatical" #Evangelicals have 0 faith in the #Christian religion to which they give empty lip service--while paying homage to those who hate #Christ.

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Let’s talk about animals. Millions of Americans, myself included, routinely use the word animal to describe people who rape, torture or murder other people. It’s so commonplace that no one ever says a word about it. We all understand what it means.

When you call a human an animal, you’re calling that person a soulless creature who doesn’t deserve to live because of what they do and have done to others. People like Kenneth MacDuff, who was convicted of murder three separate times and paroled twice.

Each time MacDuff was paroled, he killed more women. What are we supposed to do with such people? They cannot function in society without harming other people. Is it fair to the innocent victims that we felt compassion for him because he’s a human?